Tuesday, May 7, 2013

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Vous me croirez si vous voulez
These are tulips, not peonies
Let there be no mistake about it, these beauties growing in sheltered planters in a small neighborhood shopping center in Versailles are tulipes à fleurs de pivoine, a large double late tulip variety which has peony-like petals.  
Vocabulary
se méprendre sur:  to be mistaken about
une pivoine:  a peony

Expression
vous me croirez si vous voulez:  believe it or not
détrompez-vous:  think again; make no mistake

Fo more on peonies and what they say in French, click on: Flower Language

©2013 P.B. Lecron

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